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Reversing black and white scanned images

dchall8
Registered: Dec 13 2007
Posts: 12

I collect legal documents from court houses around Texas (it's my job). Back when microfilm was invented, most court houses started storing their documents in a white on black (negative) format. Since then they have gone back to normal black ink on white paper format. However, many of the documents I collect are negative images.

I am working with a reinstallation of Acrobat 7.0 Pro on a new computer. Not only that but I have been working in a county with no reversed images for several months. The problem is that I have forgotten how I used to reverse the negative images I have scanned. I scan in large batches and do not stop to reverse the image during the scan. I have always made the change in Acrobat after the scan. Can someone help me remember how I did that?

lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
You can select the image in Acrobat Pro. with the Touch Up Object tool and then right click to Edit the image in Photoshop (or whatever program you have setup in the Preferences to edit images). Once you've made the image corrections the image will be updated in your PDF.

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